Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	life_n	sin_n	sting_n	7,166	5	11.4862	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09915	A notable sermon concerninge the ryght vse of the lordes supper and other thynges very profitable for all men to knowe preached before the Kynges most excellent Mayestye and hys most honorable counsel in hys courte at Westmynster the 14. daye of Marche, by Mayster Iohn ponet Doctor of dyuinity. 1550.	Ponet, John, 1516?-1556.	1550 (1550)	STC 20177; ESTC S115044	25,346	112

of them which instructed them selfes and ther own worckes and dyd put there hole truste in him onlye But contrarywyse suche as dyd put some trust in themselues and were not so desierouse of Christ as the other were not so hungry as the other were them he sent away empty leuynge them to themselues And in the seuenth of Saynt Iohn This desier is likened to a thurstynge Si quis sitiat ueniat ad me bibat If any mā be a thirst that is to saye if his soule be desierouse to haue remission of synne let hym come to me and dryncke And also in the .21 chapter of the Apocalypse Ego sitienti dabo de fonte aque uite A will geue to him that is thyrsty the water of lyfe By all these places it is playne that y e desier which the soule of man hath to haue forgeuenes of her synne is called in scripture hungring and thurstynge Now then agayn the scripture calleth that thing which doth comfort and satisfye this desier of the soule meate and drynke And when the soule of man hath that same thinge geuen vnto her that she desiered and longed for so sore thē is she fed For a profe where of Mathew and the reste of the Euangelistes doeth vse these termes faturabuntur aqua cibus And in the .4 of S. Iohns Gospell Christe was desierouse to satisfy the wyll of his father and he called the satisfyenge of that desier hys mete Meus cibus est ut faciam uoluntatem patris mei My metes sayeth he is to doe the wyll of my father His hunger and his thurst that he had was the desier that he had to doe the will of hys father And the doing of it was his meat and drynke as it appeareth before in this texte when as answering to hys disciples he said Ego habeo alium cibum comedendum quem nos nescitis I haue other meate to eat whych ye know not Thus farre I haue declared vnto you most noble audyens howe the soule of man is made hungry and thurstye by the workynge of the lawe And also howe that thynge whych doth satisfy this desier of the soule is named in the scrypture mete Lett vs now then procede to the declaracion of the heauenly banket wherby our heauenly father doth feed comfort the soule of man whyche is made hungry and comfortles by the lawe When our heauenly and most mercyfull father perceaueth y t his law hath wroughte her feat in the soule of man and hath brought man euen to very desperacyon Ad inferos ducit reducit Then he feedeth and comforteth mans soule soweth the seed of saluation vpon him in thys wyse Here I muste desier you to licence me most noble audience to change my parson to speake in y e name of god the father who calleth al men to feed comfort there hungre thursty soules with such meat drinke as he hath prepared in his most heauenly banket for them Thus saith our heauenly father to y t man all men whiche be comfortles and afrayed of eternal dampnation for ther offenses Man dispaire not for thy synnes that thou haste cōmitted Folow my counsel although thy synnes be neuer so greate and manyfolde yet shall they not dampne the. Be sory for thyne offenses euen from the botom of thyne hart and purpose earnestly to amende thy former lyfe beleue that my sonne Christe Iesus hath taken the paynes vpon hym that thou hast deseruid for thy synnes and thou shalt not be dampned but thou shalt haue life euerlasting Let his death ease thy stomake comfort thy fearfull and sorowefull hungringe soule with the punyshing of hys body and the sheding of hys preciouse bloude And euen as meat doth comfort thy body when it is hungry drinke when it is thursty euen so let hys punishmēt comforte thy soule For I assuer the that his paines his punishment and death is able to saue both the and all the whole worlde from eternall dampnation I will no more be angrye with the for the sinnes that thou haste done If my sonne Christ will take vpon him to answere for the as no dout he if thou wilt come to him put thy hole truste in him Feede thy hungrye stomake w t thys meate that I haue prepared for the and thou shalt haue remission of all thy synnes Feare not any of those daungers that sinne that fleshe the world or the deuel hath brought the into for my sōne hath for thy sake ouercome all hys and thine enemies whom otherwise thou waste not able to ouercome with all the wittes thou haddest Fyrst and formoste he hath ouercome synne for thy sake in that he hath payd his deth to me not for his own sinnes but for thy sinnes and for the synnes of all the world so that allthough thou hast commit-may so be that he will tempte the as in dede he doth daylye tempt all such as I haue chosen to possesse my kingedome but of this thing thou maiest be well assuerid that he can not hurte the because my son hath made him both hys and thy bonde seruaunt with hys death The deuell in tempting the shall be my seruaunt for I wil vse him as an instrumente to trye thy faieth and to exercise thy belefe from tyme to tyme. So that for this purpose I suffer him to tempt the from tyme to tyme that by that meanes thou shouldeste waxe stronger in thy fayeth and stronger Now seest thou that where as before tyme thou waste afrayed of the deuell fearinge that he had rule and power ouer the Nowe my sonne Christe and I do vse hym for our slaue and bond seruaunt to exercyse the fayeth of the good by daylye temptacions to punishe the wicked with continual affliccion and miserye My sonne also hath for thy sake ouercome death and yet not after suche a sort as though it were vtterly takē away but he hath so taken it awaye that it can not hurt the. For whereas before suche as hath deyed without belefe in my sonne went out of thys lyfe into eternall death Now shall death be a dore for the and them to euerlastinge lyfe in so much that thou shalt confesse in thyne hart that which is written in the fyrste to the Philippians saiyng Mihi uita Christus est mori lucrum Christ is my lyfe and it is aduantage for me to dye Death shall no more be vnto the neyther vnto anye of my chosen bitter but sweet not so rowfull but ioyfull not losse but gayne not to be feared but to be desiered death shall not be worthye to haue the name of death but rather of the waye and entry vnto eternall lyfe Death shall haue no power to hurte the for hys stinge is cut of accordinge to my promes O mors Ero mors tua O death I wyll by thy death Thus hath my sonne for thy sake ouercome synne he hath ouercome death he